We are excited to announce the return of our in-person workshops! All workshops listed here are in-person and will be taught in our studios on Rhode Island Street.
If you have workshop credit from a covid-cancelled workshop, please email us at workshops@sfcb.org so we can enroll you.
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Arts
Printing
Binding
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Closed| Type | Title | Instructor | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Printing |
Sessions: 4
Start: Tuesday, July 27, 2021, 9:30 AM
End: Friday, July 30, 2021, 5:30 PM |
Mary Laird |
The four class Cylinder Core Certificate Program allows students to move quickly through the press basics while also addressing relief printing in general. After this class students are qualified to rent press time as well as move on to more advanced classes and techniques. |
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| Arts |
Sessions: 1
Start: Tuesday, August 3, 2021, 6:00 PM
End: Tuesday, August 3, 2021, 9:00 PM |
Meri Brin |
Learn the ins-and-outs of the Risograph, a marriage of silkscreen meeting photocopier. In this class you’ll create and edition print a 2-4 color poster. |
Wait-list |
| Printing Core Curriculum, Certificate Program |
Sessions: 1
Start: Thursday, August 5, 2021, 9:30 AM
End: Thursday, August 5, 2021, 5:30 PM |
Alan Hillesheim |
Dig in to the tradition and history of letterpress printing and get your hands dirty. Learn about the process and practice of setting type, mixing inks and pulling impressions. In this class you will learn how to print your own cards! |
Open |
| Printing Core Curriculum, Certificate Program |
Sessions: 1
Start: Friday, August 6, 2021, 9:30 AM
End: Friday, August 6, 2021, 5:30 PM |
Alan Hillesheim |
Build your letterpress skills: learn advanced justification, typesetting, and composition. Put it all together to print a broadside of your own design. |
Open |
| Printing Core Curriculum, Certificate Program |
Sessions: 1
Start: Saturday, August 7, 2021, 9:30 AM
End: Saturday, August 7, 2021, 5:30 PM |
Alan Hillesheim |
Design and aesthetic. Increase your letterpress versatility: learn to set up the press, refine you registration skills, and run an edition. Learn more about packing, roller height, and make-ready. Come ready to run an edition of your own small poster! |
Open |
| Printing Core Curriculum, Certificate Program |
Sessions: 1
Start: Sunday, August 8, 2021, 9:30 AM
End: Sunday, August 8, 2021, 5:30 PM |
Alan Hillesheim |
Bring digital back into analog in this final core course and learn to print from photopolymer plates. Apply your letterpress skills to artwork created digitally to make fantastic plates for printing. Walk away with a stack of stationery printed from polymer plates. |
Open |
| Binding Core Curriculum, Certificate Program |
Sessions: 1
Start: Monday, August 9, 2021, 9:30 AM
End: Monday, August 9, 2021, 5:30 PM |
Juliayn Coleman |
To paraphrase Lewis Carroll, we begin at the beginning. This, the first of our Core Bookbinding series, introduces students to the craft with the Coptic stitch, one of the earliest structures in binding. |
Open |
| Binding Core Curriculum, Certificate Program |
Sessions: 1
Start: Tuesday, August 10, 2021, 9:30 AM
End: Tuesday, August 10, 2021, 5:30 PM |
Juliayn Coleman |
In this second Core Bookbinding class, students will create what most of us refer to as a hardbound book. In bookbinding terms, it is known as a case binding; where a sewn textblock is glued into a separate structure known as a case. |
Open |
| Binding Core Curriculum, Certificate Program |
Sessions: 1
Start: Wednesday, August 11, 2021, 9:30 AM
End: Wednesday, August 11, 2021, 5:30 PM |
Juliayn Coleman |
In centuries past, books were sometimes sewn onto cords and then laced into soft covers before being bound for a specific collection or library. In this class students will bind a book using these bindings as a model but employing thick paper as the folded and laced wrapper. |
Open |
| Binding Core Curriculum, Certificate Program |
Sessions: 2
Start: Thursday, August 12, 2021, 9:30 AM
End: Friday, August 13, 2021, 5:30 PM |
Juliayn Coleman |
The final class in our Core Bookbinding series uses skills learned in each previous class to create a beautiful and classic rounded back cloth binding. |
Open |
| Printing |
Sessions: 2
Start: Saturday, August 14, 2021, 9:30 AM
End: Sunday, August 15, 2021, 5:30 PM |
Mr. Rik Olson |
Print illustrations like it's 1789! Learn to engrave a wood block in the classical style from the 1780’s. |
Open |
| Printing |
Sessions: 1
Start: Monday, August 16, 2021, 6:30 PM
End: Monday, August 16, 2021, 9:30 PM |
Bettina Pauly |
This class introduces the process, the materials, the machines, and the satisfaction of printing by hand on a Cylinder proof press. |
Open |
| Arts |
Sessions: 1
Start: Saturday, August 21, 2021, 9:30 AM
End: Saturday, August 21, 2021, 5:30 PM |
Ann Miller |
Drawn to lettering and design? In this workshop you will pattern with punctuation, boil letters down to the bare essentials and get to know the full range of potential of dots and lines so that these marks contribute to your message and are never left to chance. |
Open |
| Binding, Arts |
Sessions: 1
Start: Sunday, August 22, 2021, 1:00 PM
End: Sunday, August 22, 2021, 5:00 PM |
Stephanie Jucker |
Transform a board book into a handmade art book using collage, acrylic techniques, and stamping. |
Open |
| Binding |
Sessions: 2
Start: Saturday, August 28, 2021, 9:30 AM
End: Sunday, August 29, 2021, 5:30 PM |
Juliayn Coleman |
If you are interested in learning how and why to bind books with leather, this is the class for you. |
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| Binding |
Sessions: 1
Start: Monday, August 30, 2021, 6:30 PM
End: Monday, August 30, 2021, 9:30 PM |
Bettina Pauly |
Learn basic bookbinding structures and stitches that every book artist should know in this IN PERSON three-hour workshop. If you’ve ever been curious about how to make a book, Introduction to Bookbinding is the place to start. One workshop, five booklets! |
Open |